A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901)
Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company · leaf 96
taly as an application ofthe old classical marble mosaic to the decoration of a Christianchurch. On the main compartment of the vault the surface is coveredby vine branches laden with grapes twining in graceful curves overthe sjjace. In the centre is a large medallion with life-sized malebust, and… … Fig. 45. Tomb of Constantia. 7U AKClilTECTUKK IN ITALY and contained the massive porphyry sarcophagus of Constantia whichnow forms one of the most conspicuous ornaments of the Sala a CroceGreca in the Vatican. The outer wall was surrounded by an arcadedand vaulted corridor, in which were stairs…
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